George Antheil Quotes
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
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There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.
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Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
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In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
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What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts.
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
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I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
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With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
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The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.
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Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
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I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.
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It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
